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Columbia's Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 46, is assistant professor of anthropology, a specialist in the folklore, mythology and religion of Southwest U. S. Indians. Her husband, Professor Stanley Rossiter Benedict, 49, is a Cornell chemist. They have no children. Reflected Mrs. Benedict last week: "I believe women have scientific ability. But there are lots of difficulties confronting them. Marriage and children, for example. . . . Then there is the difficulty of positions. They won't take women in men's colleges or in co-educational undergraduate colleges. That limits women scientists to women's colleges or museums...
...life of the chemist in Harvard College can easily be reckoned in terms of Mallinckrodt laboratory. Here it is that the greater part of his four years is spent, getting an intimate acquaintance with the chemicals and procedures from which the whole of chemical knowledge has been derived. Professor Forbes once said that it is impossible to become a chemist by swapping small talk about the subject through smoke rings while sitting in an easy chair before a log fire. Much--perhaps the most important part--of the work in the field is that done in direct contact with...
...young chemist successfully weathers the storms of these earlier courses (notably Chem 6, which is the transition between elementary and advanced work), he enters those which may be called "advanced." They are Chem 3a-b, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 13. The undergraduate may be able to include these all in his schedule, but ordinarily he doesn't. He begins to turn to one of the sub-divisions of the field: organic, physical, or analytical chemistry...
...spite of the few defects I have pointed out, I maintain that the Department of Chemistry is well run, and that everyman is given a fair chance to prove his worth as a chemist. The early work is exacting, but with its mastery comes the independence and fascination of efforts to push back the boundaries of the Unknown...
...nauseous, vomits, has cramps, twitches. Attendants stop all this by giving the patient plenty of salty water. The sweating causes another inconvenience. The healing radio waves collect in the sweat droplets, scald the patient. General Motors' Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable patient. Mr. Kettering invented a successful blaster, using air almost hot enough to make water boil...